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C.L. Notes 1-20 Flashcards

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1
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The infamous concentration camp established b the Nazis in Poland.

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What is Auschwitz?

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Auschwitz was one of these three major things.

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What is major locations where ethnic groups were taken to be put to death in gas chambers by order of Third Reich?

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3
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A prison in Paris where many political prisoners were held and tortured.

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What is Bastille?

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4
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The prisoners in Bastille tortured until this time

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What is the French Revolution?

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A fort,once a chapel, in San Antonia, Texas, where a group of Americans made a heroic stand against a much larger Mexican force in 1873, during the war for Texan independence from Mexico.

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What is the Alamo?

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The Mexicans , under the command of this man, besieged the Alamo.

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Who is General Santa Anna?

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A courthouse in Virginia.

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What is Appomattox?

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8
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When General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox in April of 1865 effectively ending this thing.

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What is the American Civil War?

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9
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A black sailor.

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Who is Crispus Uttucks?

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10
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Crispus Uttucks was killed in this thing.

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What is the Boston Massacre?

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African -American scientist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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Who is Benjamin Banneker?

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12
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Benjamin Banneker taught himself these things.

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What are Calculus and Trigonometry?

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13
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The first ten amendments to the constitution of the United States.

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What is the Bill of Rights?

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The Bill of Rights protects these things.

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What is freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and the press?

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The respective nicknames assigned to the Union and Confederate armies.

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What is the blue and the gray?

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This army , representing the north, wore blue uniforms.

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What is the UNION?

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17
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An American frontier settler of the late 18th and 19th centuries.

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Who is Daniel Boone?

18
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Daniel Boone is best known for this.

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What is his exploration and settlement of Kentucky?

19
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The assassin of Abraham Lincoln.

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Who is John Wilkes Booth?

20
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John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln at this place.

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What is the Ford’s Theater?

21
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A clash between British Troops and town’s people in Boston in 1770, before the Revolutionary War.

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what was the Boston Massacre?

22
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The British troops killed this many people in the Boston Massacre.

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What is five?

23
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An act of defiance toward the British government by American colonists

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What is the Boston tea party?

24
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The British government made the move of trying to close the Port of Boston intensified this.

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What is American resistance to the rule of the king?

25
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The first great battle of the Revolutionary War.

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What is the battle of bunker hill?

26
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The battle of bunker hill was this.

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What is an encouragement to the colonies?

27
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The war fought in the United States between northern and southern states.

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What is the Civil War?

28
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The fighting of the civil war began with this.

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What was the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter?

29
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The Fundamental law of the United States.

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What is the Constitution?

30
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The constitution established this.

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What was a strong central government in place of the loose federation of state?

31
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A Spanish explorer of the late 16th century.

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Who is Francisco Coronado?

32
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A 19th century reformer who protested.

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Who is Dorothea Dix?

33
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Dorothea Dix protested the practice of confining of these people.

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Who are he mentally ill?

34
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A political leader of the 19th century.

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Who is Stephen a. Douglas?

35
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Douglass’s debates with Lincoln were called this.

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What were LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES?

36
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A proclamation made by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 stating that all slaves under he Confederacy from that moment do forever free.

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What is the emancipation proclamation?

37
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The Emancipation Proclamation applied to these people.

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Who are only rebellious areas that .

38
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Francisco Coronado was searching for this.

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What was the legendary seven gold cities of cibola?

39
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The first article of the bill of rights.

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What is the first amendment?

40
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The first amendment forbids this.

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What is congress from tampering with the freedoms of religion, speech assembly, and the press?

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